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Why ISIS Was Defeated In Syria, But In Afghanistan The Taliban Still Thrives
WorldNews.com 20 Feb 2019
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingAs the U.S. declares “ISIS is defeated,” or at least on the brink of collapse, the same cannot be said for the Taliban in Afghanistan. In fact, after 18 years of war, the Taliban have the upper hand in peace talks ... But why? ... learn?Sealing A Common Goal ... – fighting ISIS shared a common goal ... Nor did the U.S....
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Priyanka Chopra attended Meghan Markles' baby shower in NYC?
The Times of India 20 Feb 2019
Priyanka Chopra is a global star. The actress who tied the knot with her sweetheart Nick Jonas in December 2018 in a dreamy wedding is currently enjoying her marital bliss ... ....
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Shamima Begum ‘a bit shocked’ at move to revoke British citizenship
The Irish Times 20 Feb 2019
Shamima Begum, the Islamic State sympathiser who left the UK to travel to Syria at the age of 15, has said the British government’s decision to revoke her citizenship is “unjust”. Ms Begum (19) said she was “a bit shocked” when she learned of the move by British home secretary Sajid Javid ... “I don’t know what to say ... It’s kind of hard to swallow.” ... ....
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Alien temple? Researcher claims to have discovered Martian worship place using NASA image
International Business Times 20 Feb 2019
Scott C Waring, a popular extraterrestrial researcher who is based in Taiwan, has been spotting anomalies in NASA's Mars images and his findings have made conspiracy theorists believe that alien life on the Red Planet is a reality ... The structure has five or more levels, each one getting smaller than the one before it ... ....
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Donald Trump describes Pulwama terrorist attack as 'horrible situation'
The Economic Times 20 Feb 2019
Following the terrorist attack, Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton, has supported India's right to self-defense ... ....
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Macron’s ex-bodyguard detained as Senate report on ‘Benalla affair’ is due
France24 20 Feb 2019
The French president's disgraced senior security aide Alexandre Benalla was placed in provisional detention on Tuesday, his lawyer said, a day before the release of a long-awaited Senate report on the so-called “Benalla affair” ... ....
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Guterres calls for calming tension; Islamabad envoy meets UN leaders
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2019
United Nations, Feb 20 (IANS) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for de-escalating the tense situation in the subcontinent following the terrorist attack in Pulwama that killed 40 Indian security personnel. His spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday ... ....
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Russia needs to focus on social issues, Putin says
Hong Kong Standard 20 Feb 2019
President Vladimir Putin says in a state-of-the-nation address that Russia needs to focus on raising living standards ... ....
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UK lashes out at Germany over Saudi arms sales ban
Press TV 20 Feb 2019
The ban was first seen as nothing but a symbolic move as Germany accounted for just under two percent of Saudi Arabia’s total arms imports ... (File photo). Read More. ... Last year alone, Berlin approved 400 million euros of exports to the oil-rich country which makes Saudi Arabia the second-biggest purchaser of German arms after Algeria....
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Ending the silence on sex abuse: Vatican holds summit
Lexington Herald-Leader 20 Feb 2019
Pope Francis is summoning church leaders from around the world this week for a tutorial on how to deal with cases of sex abuse by clergy. Many Catholic church leaders around the world continue ......
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Egypt executes 9 over 2015 killing of top prosecutor
The Rock Hill Herald 20 Feb 2019
Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor, security officials said. The nine were found guilty of taking part in the bombing that killed Hisham Barakat, the first assassination of a senior official in Egypt in a quarter century ... SIGN UP ... .......
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UN asks for escorts for military observers in Kashmir after Pakistan flag incident
Yahoo Daily News 20 Feb 2019
United Nations, Feb 20 (IANS) The UN has asked the Indian government for additional escorts for its military observers in Kashmir after one of its vehicles was stopped by a group of protesters in Jammu, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said ... --IANS. al/am/ksk. ....
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Rouhani: Iran-U.S. Tensions Are at ‘A Maximum’
Hamodia 20 Feb 2019
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that tensions between Tehran and Washington were at “a maximum” rarely seen in the decades-long contentious relations of the two countries ... Rouhani said ties have rarely been as tense before ... PrintEmailGmail. ....
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North Korean Memo Admits Country Has Food Shortages Due To Weather, Sanctions
WorldNews.com 20 Feb 2019
NBC News said the claims made in the note were difficult to verify since Pyongyang is rarely transparent with internal statistics, but the memo said a food assessment conducted late 2018 was done in conjunction with the U.N.'s World Food Program found the country was making 503,000 fewer tons of food in 2017 ... and U.N. for its problems,” she said....
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